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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.






2. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.






3. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy






4. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.






5. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






6. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.






7. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.






8. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment






9. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.






10. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents






11. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS






12. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






13. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program






14. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.






15. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.






16. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






17. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction






18. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






19. Children may be physical and socially immature - may be awkward in social situations - may have difficulty reading social cues - may have trouble finding the right words - stammering. - may feel anxious in school






20. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words






21. Is a type of test - assessment - or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population - with respect to the trait being measured. This estimate is derived from the analysis of test scores and poss






22. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning






23. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.






24. MSLE instruction requires that organization on material follow the logical order of the language. Sequence must begin with the easiest and progress to more difficult material. Each step must be based on prior knowledge.






25. Closed syllable






26. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.






27. Ability to understand and express spoken language






28. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.






29. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)






30. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.






31. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.






32. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.

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33. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






34. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.






35. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies

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36. Wide Range Achievement Test






37. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.






38. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale






39. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood






40. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others






41. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun






42. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.






43. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag






44. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)






45. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.






46. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.






47. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






48. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn






49. A test in which the results can be used to determine a student's progress toward mastery of a content area. performance is compared to an expected level of mastery in a content area rather that to other student's scores. Such tests usually include qu






50. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language